What Is Poverty, If Not Violence. Like,

For The Millennium [new Year's Eve], You Really Have A Choice To Make. You Either Have To Be Naked With Your Head On Fire And A Shotgun In Bali Or Else You Have To Spend Time With Friends Or Family Around The Fireplace. And I'm Choosing Option B

I Don't Believe That The Democratic Party Has Anything To Do With The Left. We Have Two Political Parties In The Us: A Right Wing Party And A Right Centrist Party. That's The Democrats. I Laugh When People Describe Barack Obama As A Socialist President. As A Socialist Musician, I'll Tell You When We Have A Socialist President. We Don't Have One Now, Not Even Close.

America Touts Itself As The Land Of The Free, But The Number One Freedom That You And I Have Is The Freedom To Enter Into A Subservient Role In The Workplace. Once You Exercise This Freedom You’ve Lost All Control Over What You Do, What Is Produced, And How It Is Produced. And In The End, The Product Doesn’t Belong To You. The Only Way You Can Avoid Bosses And Jobs Is If You Don’t Care About Making A Living. Which Leads To The Second Freedom: The Freedom To Starve.

What Draws People To The Instrument Is The Love For Guitar Players That Play A Certain Way. I Mean, Even Though It Wasn't Intentional, It Was Hard To Avoid Copying Eddie Van Halen. He Was Basically The *bleep* Back Then.

Of Course, Music Is An Art Form, And It's Not All That Competitive. But We Don't Ever Intend To Be The Second-best Band On A Stage At Any Show.